{"id":1407,"date":"2008-11-21T16:39:17","date_gmt":"2008-11-21T16:39:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/21\/bye-bey-eli\/"},"modified":"2008-11-21T16:39:17","modified_gmt":"2008-11-21T16:39:17","slug":"bye-bey-eli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/21\/bye-bey-eli\/","title":{"rendered":"Bye Bye Eli"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/.a\/6a00d8341f053253ef010536167f45970c-pi\" onclick=\"window.open(this.href,&#39;_blank&#39;,&#39;scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0&#39;); return false\" style=\"float: left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Eli Stone\" border=\"0\" class=\"at-xid-6a00d8341f053253ef010536167f45970c \" src=\"http:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/.a\/6a00d8341f053253ef010536167f45970c-800wi\" title=\"Eli Stone\" \/><\/a>&#0160;I know there are more important things in the world &#8211; I write about many of them, but losing the enchanting, original Eli Stone makes me sad. ABC announced its cancellation Thursday apparently. I&#39;m a sucker for a bit of the supernatural now and again but how can you abandon a guy who has hallucinations featuring <a href=\"http:\/\/www.georgemichael.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">George Michael<\/a>? I mean really.<\/p>\n<p>There was something sweet and inspiring about this lawyer tilting at the windmills emerging from his hallucinations, and converting those around him to believe in his quests.&#0160; The wonderful <a href=\"http:\/\/abc.go.com\/primetime\/elistone\/index?pn=bios#t=actor&amp;d=76566\">Victor Garber<\/a> (Sydney&#39;s dad on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0285333\/\">Alias<\/a>) and adorable <a href=\"http:\/\/abc.go.com\/primetime\/elistone\/index?pn=bios#t=actor&amp;d=76648\">Loretta Devine<\/a> (also The Chief&#39;s wife on <a href=\"http:\/\/abc.go.com\/primetime\/greysanatomy\/index\">Grey&#39;s Anatomy<\/a>) didn&#39;t hurt either.&#0160;&#0160; I will miss them all.&#0160; Once in a while a TV series speaks to you for no apparent reason; I think in this case I just loved the story and the struggle.&#0160; Maybe Eli will find a new life on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifi.com\/\">SciFi Channel<\/a> or something so we can at least relive his past adventures.&#0160; And see him in production numbers with George Michael one more time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#0160;I know there are more important things in the world &#8211; I write about many of them, but losing the enchanting, original Eli Stone makes me sad. ABC announced its cancellation Thursday apparently. I&#39;m a sucker for a bit of the supernatural now and again but how can you abandon a guy who has hallucinations &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/21\/bye-bey-eli\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bye Bye Eli<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,27,7,97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-current-affairs","category-life","category-television"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4gBq8-mH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1407\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}